Ukrainian Jews

Ukrainian Jews are Jewish people from the country of Ukraine in Eastern Europe. In 2014, 360,000-460,000 Jews lived in the Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands living overseas among the Jewish diaspora. Jews were persecuted by the Orthodox Christian cossacks and the government of the Russian Empire, with the Black Hundreds and cossacks launching several pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881. 70,000-250,000 Jews were killed during the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War era, with Szymon Petlyura's Ukrainian nationalists carrying out pogroms against the Jews. By 2014, most Ukrainian Jews had made aliyah to Israel or had emigrated for the United States, and those left in Ukraine were persecuted by the nationalist regime that took power after the Euromaidan revolution.